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Morphine-Like Drugs Could Offer Relief For Amputees
October 17, 2001 — Fifty to 80 percent of all amputees experience pain in their stumps or what feels like the missing limbs long after surgical wounds have healed. Now new research from Johns Hopkins suggests the two ... > full story -
Rewards Coupled With Naltrexone Effective In Treating Heroin And Other Opioid Addictions
August 16, 2001 — Rewarding drug users with vouchers that they exchange for food, clothing, or, as one did, a robe for singing in a church choir, was effective in keeping patients drug free and on a medication ... > full story -
Study Gives First Glimpse Of Human Brain's Natural Painkiller System In Action
July 16, 2001 — A unique experiment that studied chemical activity in the brains of human volunteers while they experienced sustained pain and reported how they felt is providing new insights into the importance of ... > full story -
Methadone Promotes HIV Infection In Cell Culture
May 16, 2001 — Methadone, the drug that is widely used in drug treatment centers to treat heroin addicts, stimulates HIV infection of human immune cells studied in cell cultures, according to immunology researchers ... > full story -
Molecular Fingerprint Identified For Cocaine Addiction
December 28, 2000 — Researchers led by Dr. Scott Hemby, Ph.D., of the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center at Emory University have identified more than 400 human genes that are affected by long-term cocaine abuse. ... > full story -
Two New Meds Help Heroin Addicts, Study Shows; Take Users Off Daily Dose Treadmill
November 6, 2000 — A study of patients addicted to heroin shows that two medications other than the gold standard methadone are effective treatments, even for "hard core" users. Moreover, unlike methadone, the ... > full story -
UCSF Finding Could Lead To Long-Sought Alternative To Morphine
June 12, 2000 — UCSF researchers have discovered a pain relief strategy that could provide a long-sought alternative to morphine, without the drug's addictive quality. The finding, the latest in a series of ... > full story -
Pain Drug Reveals What Most Already Know Men's And Women's Brains Are Simply Different
March 15, 2000 — Researchers led by UCSF scientists are reporting that an experimental pain drug known as a kappa-opioid brings pain relief to female rats but not males, a finding that adds weight to a recent UCSF ... > full story -
Engineered Mice Point To New Target For Pain Relief
December 29, 1999 — Duke University Medical Center scientists have discovered a biological mechanism in mice that prolongs morphine's painkilling effects. Their findings could lead to the development of new drugs ... > full story -
Alcohol Researchers Identify New Medication That Lessens Relapse Risk
September 1, 1999 — A study in the current Archives of General Psychiatry (Volume 56, pages 719-724) shows that nalmefene, an opioid antagonist that is not now commercially available in the oral form studied, is ... > full story
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